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Chapter 81843 calls of flanged males, and 3 calls of transitioning males. Temmy showed up at the door during/after all playbacks of flanged male long calls, and once after playback of a transitioning male long call (Figure 1). Importantly, she would only come to the door during or after the playback of the long call. Thus, she was never visible at the window at the start of the trial. In addition, she never came to the door in response to the control sounds. Because of her strong reaction to the long call stimuli, we asked permission to opportunistically expose her to some stimuli in the outside enclosure. We started doing this on the afternoon of the first day. Figure 1. Temmy coming to the door that separates the indoor and outdoor enclosure in response to a flanged male long call.On the afternoon after we had finished with the indoor trials for the playback study, we played two long calls specifically to Temmy, in the outer enclosure. In both cases she showed a strong behavioural response (Figure 2). Her response to the long calls was characterised by fast movement in the direction of the speaker, climbing into climbing structures, and standing/sitting while looking in the direction of the speaker. Furthermore, Temmy started vocalising for multiple minutes in a row. On the morning of day 2, we resumed playing long calls to Temmy in the outside enclosure. However, we now also included control sounds to determine whether she would show the same behavioural response to all sounds. In total we played three long calls and four control sounds. Temmy Tom Roth.indd 184 08-01-2024 10:42